Learning things #2

August 8, 2008 | Filed Under Main |

There is this great store in Jersey called The Wine Library. It is two stories of various liquors but mainly wines (real wine – not the stuff I make). Wines from every region and made with every kind of grape. And the guy who runs it – Gary Vaynerchuk – has these video blogs on his website where tastes different wines, spits them into a Jets bucket and tells you what they taste like and what they should taste like. It’s hilarious and very informative. Well, he now has Podcasts on iTunes so I tried to subscribe to them. Nothing came through. I subscribed again, I purchased each podcast individually – still nothing. I checked all my setups. Everything was cool, but still no podcasts. Finally, I noticed a little exclamation point that kept popping up which said there was trouble getting to the Wine Library website. So I tried the website the normal way. Instead of the Wine Library, I get a big white screen with a picture of a rubber stamp on it that says “Access – DENIED”. The reason given – Alcohol. In Kuwait, I am not even allowed to read about liquor.

Also, I will never be able to tell you the exact temperature out here. They have a law in Kuwait that says if the temperature goes above 50 degrees Celsius (roughly 120), that all outside laborers can go home. The guys who work outside here are the poorest of the poor – men from Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places who have no skills and make maybe $100 a month (which I guess must be better then where they live). However, all reports of weather – including temperature – come from the Ministry. Only the Ministry – there are no outside agencies allowed. And, oddly enough, the temperature has never been above 50 degrees. Al least not before 3PM when the Ministry closes.

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